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On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Steven <stevena...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 1. When the user saves a game and writes in the name of the players,
>
> > Ccidb searches its player database and gives suggestions. The name
> > syntax is "<family name>, <first name>"... which is not
> > intuitive.
>
> Yes, it's not very intuitive, but this is how names are displayed in
> scidb's pgn window header.
>
> > I suggest, that divide the name field into two half: family name
> > and first name.
>
> Sounds reasonable, but how do you handle middle names ??
> They possibly don't belong with the christian name, but are often used
> in big databases to identify different players. Using two or three entry
> widgets to input a name may become tiresome.
>
> Another consideration is that Chinese names are written family name first.
>
> > 2. I wanted to delete a variation by selecting its first move and
> > pressing the delete key, but no action was mapped for the delete key.
> > I think it would be intuitive if pressing the delete key would delete
> > all moves after the selected move in the variation, including the
> > selecting move.
>
> Maybe it's best to use delete key to truncate trailing moves *or* delete a
> variation,
> but not both.
>
> (I think Scid vs PC will adopt "delete" to truncate trailing moves
> in the game, or variation).
>
> > 3. Also there is nothing mapped to a double-click on a move. You could
> > map some action to it. For example: adding a text note after the move.
>
> Nothing seems intuitive to me, but "adding a text note" is reasonable.
>
> Steve
>
> PS. Scidb-beta throws am error when trying to open a ".sci" base that was
> generated
> by exporting my test sa.si4 database. Below is the log.
> (... Suppose the error could be in my database).
>
> (file) db_namebase.cpp:569
> (what) assertion failed: size() == 1 || *playerAt(size() - 2) <
> *playerAt(size() - 1)
> (type) mstl::assertion_failure_exception
>
> === Backtrace ============================================
> db::Namebase::insertPlayer [db_namebase.cpp:569]
> db::Namebase::appendPlayer [./db_namebase.ipp:467]
> db::sci::Codec::readPlayerbase [sci/sci_codec.cpp:1870]
> db::sci::Codec::readNamebases [sci/sci_codec.cpp:1503]
> db::sci::Codec::doOpen [sci/sci_codec.cpp:874]
> db::DatabaseCodec::open [db_database_codec.cpp:604]
> db::Database::Database [db_database.cpp:202]
> app::Application::open [app_application.cpp:451]
> cmdLoad [tcl_database.cpp:882]
> safeCall [tcl_base.cpp:761]
> main [tkscidb.cpp:106]
> ==========================================================
>
> while executing
> "::util::catchException { ::progress::start $parent $cmd $args $options }"
> (procedure "database::openBase" line 74)
> invoked from within
> "database::openBase .application [::util::databasePath $file] yes
> -encoding $::encoding::autoEncoding"
> (procedure "application::open" line 113)
> invoked from within
> "application::open"
> (file "/usr/local/bin/scidb-beta" line 119185)
>
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